The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1887-08-20

just so much as the vulture ate out
by day, so much grew by night.
So it is with the Legislature. They
meet. exhaust the treasury, adj
|journ, and, during the interval of
repose, they want the States fnan-
cial heart to swell up again to be
enabled to satiate the ravenous
appetites of the suckers Of public
pap The mammalia Of the pub.
lie breast having been extended
by full flow of money into the
treasury, September Tst. Sixty
thousand dollars, and the lives Of
many innocent men sacrificed, to
protect Neal and Craft, the Ash
land rapists and murderers-three
times convicted, and twice granted
new trial, on account of some
small technicality Of law. Six
weeks, and thirty thousand dollars
wasted in Juggling among poll
ticians, as to whether Blackburn,
Williams or Sweeney should be
elected Senator, either one of
whom would have made satisfac-
tory representative Of the people
in the council, Of the nation.
How would it have been in State
convention? The whole matter
would have been settled in three
days. Shall we have repetition
OF this next winter? | say God
forbid! Let each candidate come
forward with his developed
strength, give him the benefit of
all he has, and then begin the
process, as in State conventions,
Of decapitating the hindmost man.
But little time will then be Con-
sumed in electing a United States
Senator.
But | have said the time for col
lecting the public revenue, on Sep
TENDER Ist, is most inopportune.
The farmer has but one crop to
mature previous to that time, viz:
the wheat crop (the oats and hay
crop not being marketable before
the winter season, and is generally
used to feed the stock Of the farm
through the winter). Much Of
the wheat crop can not be threshed
before September Ist, and if
threshed, it has to be put on the
market at buyers prices, which have
been ruinously low for two years.
Besides, this is the farmers first
ready money. The hemp, tobacco
and corn crops are to be saved,
and it takes great deal Of money
to save them. The July store &C
counts have to be met. otherwise
the merchant cannot pay his taxes.
The cattle, hog and mule crop are
not ready for market until they
are fattened off of the growing
and maturing crops. So where is
the money to pay September taxes?
Again, the State of Kentucky is
collecting unjust taxes, which is
SO forcibly set forth in an article
herewith appended, signed "a
Victim"), that l forbear to say
additional. What he has
said has been well said, and hope
you will read it carefully. We are
coming to some what Of an equi-
librium, from present signs of the
times, in the political horizon.
ITO the victors belong the spoils"
has been the cry. and hence, when
Mr.. Cleveland was elected, wall
went up from the Democratic pap
suckers "to turn the rascals out"
Mr.. Cleveland did turn many out,
but he kept the honest men in,
and put more honest men in ire
spective Of political complexion.
Mr. Cleveland, your head was
level on this, and l commend you
for it.
And now a word in reference to
voting taxes, and am done. 1t is
unjust, and contrary to
every principal Of right for a non
property holder to vote a tax upon
a property holder. Taxation with
out representation is unjust; repre-
sentation without taxation is equal
y unfair and unjust
What we need iS q nr0nert1,